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Sheet Metal Brake and 3d Printer.
S. Heslop:
I was thinking for the protrustion I could just fiddle aroud with slightly oversized bolt holes to get things square. Maybe plasma cutting is better than I give it credit for, but I was kind of assuming it'd be off by a little bit in roundness and stuff.
What has me more worried is their position along the axis, since that might try twist the plates if they're misaligned and cause weird problems.
WeldingRod:
My plasma cut plates were so good that you could stick a bolt in a hole, let go, and it would rattle down rather than free falling. With no cleanup on the holes!
The plasma hole locations and edges are going to be better than +- 0.01" tolerance on absolute location. Probable closer to +-0.002".
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S. Heslop:
What a damn hassle. I thought i'd try exporting the files from sketchup into fusion 360 since that's the trendy new CAD program from autodesk. Sketchup's exporter barely works and has lines and circles missing, and fusion 360 is a parametric nightmare that doesn't let you easily copy, paste and move stuff around. Why is every CAD program made by idiots. I've spent all morning trying to get things to work. Different export settings results in random circles missing, and since everything wants to be parametic and goes wild if you try move stuff . Inventor was slightly better and the sketch blocks would probably help, but at a 12 gigabyte download i'm not super keen.
It's not even complicated geometry. It's just arcs and lines.
S. Heslop:
"Yeah, @robJYZMT, that one is unfortunate. Project should allow projection of multiple things, but today it is one-at-a-time. I will raise this issue in our next discussion to see if this behavior can be changed, but for now, the limitation exists."
What god damn morons. Every time I search to see if a common feature is in Fusion 360, a feature that might make each thing I try feasible, I find this exact same response. 'Gee saving the file... that isn't included as of the current release. I'll bring it up at the next meeting'. Often some clown developer follows the stock response with a 'the program works perfectly and you're stupid for not wanting to click 50,000 times to project every line and arc' sort of reply.
Maybe I aught to try solidworks at some point.
WeldingRod:
I have agree on CAD challenges. Unfortunately, there are at least two fundamental ways to describe 3d objects. Most expensive CAD systems are parametric; think of a list having every detail written on it. Sketchup really works by specifing triangles and rectangles. It also has some information on what to visually smooth.
Unfortunately, those two don't play well together. Bleah.
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